"""Irish Times"" Literature Prize for Non-fiction and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. It was also enthusiastically reviewed: The scope and grandeur of his reflections is supported by the concrete detail of his narrative. It is a moving and remarkable triumph. From the horror has come something wonderful. ""An Evil Cradling"" is a great book... With the publication of ""An Evil Cradling"", Brian Keenan is not letting the world forget. This is a mighty achievement by a magnificent writer. Scriptural in its resonances and its broad artistry, while being as gripping as an airport thriller Unforgettable... a remarkable achievement ""An Evil"
"sisters were flown by Irish Government executive jet to Damascus to meet him and bring him home to Northern Ireland. He now lives in Dublin. He returned to Beirut in 2007 for the first time since being released 17 years earlier, and described ""falling in love"" with the city. ""An Evil Cradling"" is an autobiographical book by Keenan about his four years as a hostage in Beirut. The book revolves heavily around the great friendship he experienced with fellow hostage John McCarthy, and the brutality that was inflicted upon them by their captors. It was the 1991 winner of the"
"of Emil Habibi. The Israeli is not only the policeman or the occupier, he is the ""other,"" who also has a human experience, and we need to read this experience. Our reading of their experience is a mirror to our reading of the Palestinian experience."" Khoury's novel, ""Yalo"" (2002, and translated into English in 2008 for US publication by American Peter Theroux), depicted a former militiaman accused of crimes during Lebanon's civil war. He described the use of torture in the Lebanese judicial system. The title refers to the name of a Palestinian Arab village that was destroyed and in"
"book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind’s potential for chilling and inexplicable evil. Perhaps the ultimate tragedy is that this joins a packed library of similar tomes from the past. The Last Girl (memoir) The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State is an autobiographical book by Nadia Murad in which she describes how she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State during the Second Iraqi Civil War. The book eventually led to the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Murad. Part I details Murad growing up in the Yazidi"
"bringing her a copy of Ernest Hemingway's ""A Farewell to Arms"" - the story of a romance with a British nurse. Though she arrived for humanitarian reasons by the summer of 1986 she says she had developed a strong sympathy for the Palestinian cause. Children of the Siege Children of the Siege is a book by Pauline Cutting. It was first published in 1988 by William Heinemann. The book is an account of Cuttings time, 1985-1987, working as a surgeon in the Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj al-Barajneh, in southern Beirut for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Having responded to an"
"Kidnapping of Hossein Alikhani Hossein Alikhani was an Iranian businessman and author who was abducted in a sting operation by undercover United States Customs Service agents in 1992, and released after being held for 130 days. Alikhani was the author of ""In the Claw of The Eagle: A Guide to U.S Sanctions Against Libya"" and ""Sanctioning Iran: Anatomy of a Failed Policy"", and was an authority on the subject of unilateral trade sanctions and the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996. He founded the NGO Centre for World Dialogue based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Despite his own troubles in the"
"from Central Europe who is recruited to the Mule Corps and serves in the war with his donkey Hey-Ho in Gallipoli and the Middle East. The book was nominated in 2015 for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2015. ""A Horse Called Hero"", is the story of two child evacuees from London during World War II who, in the depths of the British countryside, gradually come to understand that their Father, a hero of the First World War, has been imprisoned for cowardice. This story is set in the area of the West Country where Sam lives. Angus has said about"
"Middle East. ""The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames"" (Crown, 2014) is a biography of CIA officer Robert Ames, whose career focus was the Middle East. According to the book, Ames played a key role in starting the peace process that led to the Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO. Ames perished in the April 18, 1983 truck bombing of the American embassy in Beirut. Bird is a recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1973), an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship (1981), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984), and a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Grant for"
"violence reduction organizations in the West Bank and Gaza, including Christian Peacemaker Teams) and with nonviolent peace and nonviolent justice organizations in the U.S. In April 2009 he and his wife were recognized by the Dalai Lama as one of 2009's ""Unsung Heroes of Compassion"". Jerry Levin (journalist) Jerry Levin is a former CNN network journalist. He writes on nonviolence, with an emphasis on the Middle East and in particular Palestine and Israel. In 1984 he was kidnapped and held hostage by Hezbollah. He escaped after eleven and a half months in captivity due to the nonviolent behind the scene"
"—Wendy Chamberlin, president of the Middle East Institute, former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan ""Steven Kull's ""Feeling Betrayed"" breaks new ground and is a must—read for academics and policymakers. It is an in-depth study of Muslim attitudes toward the United States. The findings culled from numerous public opinion polls and focus groups give an accurate picture of the concerns, hopes, and political and ideological inclinations of citizens in Muslim majority countries, which I have used during my work for the government and since."" —Emile Nakhleh, former director, CIA Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, and author of ""A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's"
"The Last Girl (memoir) The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State is an autobiographical book by Nadia Murad in which she describes how she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State during the Second Iraqi Civil War. The book eventually led to the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Murad. Part I details Murad growing up in the Yazidi village of Kojo, Sinjar District, with her mother, two older sisters and eight older brothers. Murad outlines the fallout of several incidents and disputes related to nearby Sunni villages and terrorist attacks"
"spoke in many national and international conferences. In 2006, he published his first book, ""Palestine: A Bleeding Wound in the World’s Conscience"". In 2011, he published his second book, ""Kairos for Palestine"". He contributed to several other published books among them: Rifat Odeh Kassis Rifat Odeh Kassis () is a Palestinian Christian who was born in Beit Sahour, in the West Bank. An active human rights and political and community activist. He is an author and speaker. He has been arrested and imprisoned several times by Israel. In 1991 he founded the Palestinian section of the international child rights organization,"
"captured hijackers were killed. He spent a year, 1984–85, as a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. to write ""Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land"", which explores the mutual perceptions and relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the West Bank. The book won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction and was extensively revised and updated in 2002. He was executive producer, writer, and narrator of a two-hour PBS documentary on Arab and Jew, which won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism, and of a one-hour film, ""Arab and Jew: Return"
"2006. It is a thriller novel about the relations between the US and the Arab world. But unlike other thriller novelists, such as Tom Clancy, this novel is written from the Arabs' point of view, specifically the Palestinians. Carl Hamilton, vice-admiral and former chief of Säpo (the Swedish Security Service), has (after escaping from Swedish jail, convicted of murder) for ten years been living in the United States. Here he lives under false name (Hamlon) with American citizenship, in La Jolla, San Diego, keeping his body in shape and getting psychological help. But then on a spring day his old"
"A Peace to End All Peace A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (also subtitled Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922) is a 1989 history book written by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Fromkin, which describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic changes that took place in the Middle East as a result, which he claims led to a new world war that's still going on today. It has been widely praised. Richard Holbrooke wrote: “Without knowledge"
"then Cairo and Jerusalem and spending a considerable amount of time (1975–84) in Lebanon. He reported on the first Gulf War, entering Kuwait City with the US Marines, the siege of Sarajevo, and the massacres in Rwanda. He has twice been named International Reporter of the Year in the British press awards and once runner-up. His books include fiction and non-fiction among them ""The Last Crusade"", a novel set against the backcloth of General Allenby's 1917 campaign against the Ottoman Turks in Palestine which resulted in the capture of Jerusalem. Endeavour Press publish it as an Ebook under the title"
"Triage (novel) Triage is a 1998 novel by Scott Anderson. Triage focuses on the psychological effects of war on the photo journalist protagonist, Mark. Mark Walsh, a young war photographer, returns to New York in 1989 after being injured in Kurdistan whilst on assignment. He had spent a few frightening days in the recovery ward of a dilapidated, overcrowded hospital inside a cave, but can this explain his sleeplessness, distraction, his wounds' inability to heal? Elena, Mark's Spanish girlfriend, grows more and more alarmed by his strange behavior, while she also tries to calm her pregnant friend Diane, whose photographer"
"people.” In the book, he says, he seeks to convince Jews that they have no right to “colonize” Palestine and to convince Christians that they have not only a right but an obligation to challenge this “colonization.” Braverman published ""A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, Healing and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine"" in 2013. Author Sara Roy called Fatal Embrace “courageous, provocative, and greatly deserving of our attention.” Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, called it “essential reading for all who genuinely care about the future of Israel and the suffering"
"covered in fake blood. Mishmish Or, an Israeli Jew of Turkish paternal and Egyptian maternal descent, picked him up off the sidewalks and gave him shelter. He eventually had a daughter, Milay, with her. In the meantime his mother Arna set up a children's center to teach over 1500 children in the Jenin camp and asked her son to join her there to teach drama therapy. When the Al-Aqsa intifada broke out, two of his former students, Yusuf Sweitat and Nidal al-Jabali, became suicide bombers in October 2001 at Hadera. Two weeks earlier, a girl whom Sweitat had salvaged from"
"camps in Jordan. Visiting Beirut in September 1982, he found himself in the midst of the Israeli invasion of the city. He was one of the first foreigners to enter Shatila refugee camp after the massacre of hundreds of its inhabitants. According to Edmund White, ""For a book about one of the most ideologically heated conflicts of modern times, ""Prisoner of Love"" is curiously cool and unpolemical."" As described by ""Publishers Weekly"", ""Part anti-Zionist tract, part memoir and philosophical discourse, this uninhibited cascade of images and associations is less a political document than a map of Genet's mental landscape."" Edward"
"And Then All Hell Broke Loose And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East is a book written by Richard Engel about his journey in the Middle East as a freelance reporter. The book gives account of the terrorist activities and numerous wars in the region. His journey includes reporting in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon. Richard Engel is an American journalist who was born on September 16, 1973 in New York. He grew up in Manhattan, where he attended Riverdale Country School. After graduating, he went on to attend Stanford University and earned a B.A. in"
"Children of the Siege Children of the Siege is a book by Pauline Cutting. It was first published in 1988 by William Heinemann. The book is an account of Cuttings time, 1985-1987, working as a surgeon in the Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj al-Barajneh, in southern Beirut for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Having responded to an advert in the British Medical Journal, Cutting arrived in Beirut in December 1985. At this period the Bourj al-Barajneh camp was under siege by Amal militia. Amal had been set up in 1974 by Musa Sadr and was the closest ally in Lebanon of"
"The Harbinger (novel) The Harbinger is a 2012 best-selling Christian novel by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, a Messianic Jew. It suggests that the 9/11 terrorism attack was a divine warning to the United States. Cahn ties the 9/11 attacks to a section of Isaiah 9, which describes God vowing to destroy ancient Israel for persistent disobedience towards Him and ignoring the warnings He has sent them. One such warning was a military attack on Israel which caused physical damage to the land. Verses 9 and 10 record that instead of recognizing God's warning and repenting of its sins, Israel defiantly vowed"
"that the power of the Basij in Iran has led to the creation of a ""captive society"" – one that is run on paramilitary-generated fear. Golkar is a Middle East and North African studies lecturer at Northwestern University and a visiting fellow for Iran policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. From 2013 to 2014, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to that, he served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. The book was selected as one of the best"
"children to escape an abusive husband; ""Today I'm Alice"" (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2009) the story of Multiple Personality Disorder survivor Alice Jamieson, a ""Sunday Times"" Top Ten best-seller; and two books set in Iraq with former infantry captain turned mercenary James Ashcroft, ""Escape From Baghdad"" (Virgin, 2009), the rescue of Ashcroft's former Iraqi interpreter and his family from Shia Death Squads; and ""Making A Killing"" (Virgin, 2006) – on which Andy Martin wrote in ""The Daily Telegraph"": ""Ashcroft must have formed a good working alliance with ghostwriter Clifford Thurlow, because this diary of death and destruction radiates not just personality"
"involved in a successful escape attempt from western Beirut amidst an armed takeover by militants. Christopher Davidson Christopher Davidson is Reader in Middle East Politics and a Fellow at Durham University in the UK. He is an author of multiple books on the Middle East, including ""Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East"" (2016). According to a review in ""Christian Science Monitor"", the book ""comes closer than any recent popular study to offering definitive answers"" to the questions of the origins of the strife in the region. A graduate (BA & MA) of Cambridge University, he completed his"
"he advocates grassroots, nonviolent resistance, but has also said that stone-throwing is an important symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. His 2011 arrest drew international attention, with the European Union describing him as a human rights defender, and Amnesty International designating him a prisoner of conscience. He was arrested again in October 2012 for a demonstration in a supermarket, but released in early 2013. He is the father of Ahed Tamimi, who was sentenced to eight months in prison under a plea bargain in 2018. Tamimi was ten weeks old at the time of the Israeli occupation of the"
"the ""New Yorker""...takes an engagingly personal approach to the issue in his story of a quest for mutual understanding with a Palestinian activist who had been his prisoner ... For the bittersweet complexity of that moment, offered in the context of all that has preceded it, this is a genuinely admirable book.” ""The Washington Post"" review of the book noted, """"Prisoners"" is Jeffrey Goldberg’s sensitive, forthright and perceptive account of his years as a soldier and journalist in Israel—and of his long-running conversation with a Palestinian whom he once kept under lock and key. It is a forceful reminder of"
"Mr. Sick, who served at the National Security Council under three presidents. Independent human rights bodies in the US also took up Alikhani's case much after the case was decided, presenting the case as one of extraordinary rendition Kidnapping of Hossein Alikhani Hossein Alikhani was an Iranian businessman and author who was abducted in a sting operation by undercover United States Customs Service agents in 1992, and released after being held for 130 days. Alikhani was the author of ""In the Claw of The Eagle: A Guide to U.S Sanctions Against Libya"" and ""Sanctioning Iran: Anatomy of a Failed Policy"","
"David Fromkin David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 June 11, 2017) was an American author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on the Middle East, ""A Peace to End All Peace"" (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Fromkin has written seven books in total, with his most recent in 2007, ""The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners"" David Fromkin was"
"is the first time ever Aladdin uses slang-even in dialogue- in his books. A Well-Trained Stray ‘’'A Well-trained Stray'’' ( ‘'ʿKālb Bālādy Mudārab"") is a novel by Egyptian author Muhammad Aladdin. Published in Arabic in 2014, the book, ostensibly set in 2013 after the time of the 2013 Egyptian coup d’état, is a Picaresque novel, a minimalistic scathing portrayal of modern generation in the Egyptian society since the nineties. The locale of the novel is some unnamed lower and middle middle class areas Cairo, it also represent some affiliation with documenting porn industry and how it reflected on modern Egyptian"
"the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad. Their tanks bombarded the camp and their snipers attacked the Palestinians. The book opens with the description of an Amal sniper attack on a young boy. Cutting wrote ; ""I was appalled by the brutality of Amal."" By mid-January 1987, the camp starving, some feared a repeat of the 1976 Tel al-Zaatar massacre - when an east Beirut Palestinian refugee camp had been surrounded by the Phalangists, - aided by the Syrians. The book is also an account of her meeting the Dutch doctor Ben Alofs and of their growing closeness,- signaled by Alofs"
"is the story of a convict who, while being forced to help victims of a flood, rescues a pregnant woman. They are swept away downstream by the flooding Mississippi, and she gives birth to a baby. He eventually gets both himself and the woman to safety and then turns himself in, returning to prison. <br> If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem is a novel by the American author William Faulkner published in 1939. The novel was originally published under the title The Wild Palms, which is the title of one of the two interwoven stories. This"